
Bobby
shared a media post in group #Sleep via #Sleep
Overall, the study showed that most Americans aren’t getting enough shut-eye: the average #Sleep duration for US adults worked out to be 6 hours and 40 minutes, short of the recommended seven to nine hours. It also found that the average bedtime for Americans (or at least when they get off their devices) was about 11:37 p.m.
However, overlaying the results with the average annual temperatures in each US state last year presented a clear correlation: residents in colder states tended to sleep more.
Plotting average sleep duration with each state’s deviation from the national mean temperature showed that warmer states — such as Louisiana, Texas, and Florida — trended with having shorter sleep lengths. Hawaii, known for its tropical climate, saw participants get the least sleep of any state at 6 hours and 31 minutes, despite having the earliest bedtime (11:06 p.m.).
Generally, states with below-average temperatures, like Colorado and Wyoming, reported the longest slumbers — bar notable exceptions like extremely cold Alaska and unusually sleepy D.C. In fact, while D.C. residents had the third-longest average sleep duration in the country, at 6 hours and 47 minutes, they also went to bed the latest (11:56 p.m.)
#Data is beautiful

